From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,2c6139ce13be9980 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,3d3f20d31be1c33a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,2c6139ce13be9980 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,2c6139ce13be9980 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public From: mheaney@ni.net (Matthew Heaney) Subject: Re: Interface/Implementation (was Re: Design by Contract) Date: 1997/09/10 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 271226283 References: Organization: Estormza Software Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.eiffel Date: 1997-09-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , nospam@thanks.com.au wrote: >:This is not unlike saying that "strong typing" is a helpful limitation, >:but a limitation nonetheless. > >I think this is a poor analogy. While strong typing delivers some obvious >benefits, I don't think the same can be said of forced dependency ordering. Well, at least Jean Ichbiah, Tony Hoare, and Robert Dewar disagree with you. Forced dependency order was a very deliberate choice. Again, to recap Tony's Turing Award lecture: "We certainly want programs to be read by _people_ [his italics] and people prefer to read things once in a single pass." I guess Tony wasn't talking about people that read Eiffel programs, eh? -------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthew Heaney Software Development Consultant (818) 985-1271